Secondary Research on Controversy

One of the aspects that we have to bear in mind is how will people interpret what we put in our music video. An opinion in the focus group was what called me attention to this matter. As our song choice has to do with religion and homosexuality and we want to implement some of these themes in the music video, we have to be careful, as some people might take it as a personal offence or an offence to their religion. An example of a music video that was controversial regarding religion was Madonna’s “Like a prayer”.This music video created a great controversy as crosses were burned; Madonna also kissed Saint Martin de Porres in a church. This video was a mixture of sacred things with profane things. It really “angered” the Vatican and many other religious people, as they thought that the actor that portrayed Saint Martin de Porres, was a black version of Christ. They also found it extremely disrespectful that crosses were burnt. The director, Mary Lambert was really criticized for this music video.

This is the music video: